A World of People (1)

During my many journeys around the world, I have always had my camera at the ready to photograph what fascinates me most; the people I see around me.

‘A World of People’ is a selection of shots I have taken during the last five years and records the many and varied faces of those people, the people who inhabit your and my world.

Nepal

Zanzibar

Zanzibar

Ghana

Ghana

Lamu , Kenya

Nepal

Nepal

Zanzibar

Nepal

Nepal

Morocco

Zanzibar

Nepal

Lamu, Kenya

Zanzibar

Ghana

Nepal

Dubai

Zanzibar

Paté Island, Kenya

Zanzibar

Zanzibar

Zanzibar

Nepal

Zanzibar

Lamu, Kenya

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Ghana

Nepal

Paté Island, Kenya

Nepal

Nepal

Ghana

Cuba

Dubai

Nepal

Nepal

Nepal

Cuba

Zanzibar

Nepal

Zanzibar

Dubai

Nepal

Turkey

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Zanzibar

Cuba

Ghana

Amazonia

Amazonia

A World of People (2)

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Italy

Dubai

Zanzibar

Nepal

Amazonia

Amazonia

Cuba

Zanzibar

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Cuba

Syrian Refugees, Lebanon

Sri Lanka

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Amazonia

Ghana

Syrian Refugees, Lebanon

Morocco

Dubai

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Turkey

Amazonia

Amazonia

Cuba

Cuba

Nepal

Nepal

Nepal

Lamu, Kenya

Sri Lanka

Zanzibar

Zanzibar

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee Family, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee Child, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee Child, Lebanon

Syrian Refugees, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee Girl, Lebanon

Syrian Refugees, Lebanon

Nepal

Syrian Refugees, Lebanon

Nepal

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Syrian Refugees, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Syrian Refugee, Lebanon

Amazonia

Dubai

Syrian Refugee Camps

These shots were taken during a commission for a charity called 'Dubai Cares' and J. Walter Thomson in Dubai.

The shots were to be used for a campaign to raise money for educating children who spend their lives in the Syrian Refugee Camps dotted throughout The Middle East.

Seen it All (1)

Number Twenty Two

Blue Living Room

The Big Family

Lone Boy

Calling Home

Peek-a-Boo

Grandfather & Grandson

Sitting Comfortably

Sewing Sacks (1)

Family Group

Not Happy

Daily Exercise

Seen it All (2)

Scallywags

Grandfather

Frightened

Abandoned Greenhouse

Camera Shy

Half Hidden

Learning a Trade

TV Addicts

Hello There

Sewing Sacks (2)

Homework

Seen it All (3)

Mother & Son

It's Lonely Outside (1)

Looking Back

Lunchtime

The Schoolteacher

Keeping up Appearances

Cheeky Chappy

Starting Young

Red & Yellow

Red Top

Off to Play

The Scrap Merchant

Sewing Sacks (3)

Homework Time

It's Lonely Outside (2)

Orange Wall

Painted Fingernail

Stepping Out

Lonely Boy

Proud Cook

The Footballer

The Living Room

Out of The Midday Sun

Yellow Theme

Nepal

These shots were taken during a commission for a charity called 'Dubai Cares' and J. Walter Thomson in Dubai.

The shots were to be used for a campaign to raise money for educating children affected by the earthquake in Nepal.

Enigmatic Beauty

Tough on The Street

In a Blue Doorway

Colourful Squatter

What I Learned Today (1)

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Gnarled Face

Nepalese Beauty

Lunchtime

Glum

What I Learned Today (2)

Connected

Sewing For a Living

Yellow Girl

Afternoon Nap

Curious

Temporary Crib

What I Learned Today (3)

Sitting in A Doorway

Passing the Time of Day

Stable Doorway

Against a Green Wall

What I Learned Today (4)

Namaste (1)

Temple Doorway

Life's Essentials

Rainy Day

Doing the Books

What I Learned Today (5)

Doorstep

Showing Tonight

Important Talk

Shopping

The Survivor

What I Learned Today (6)

Ruminating

Humanity

Street Cooking

Wrinkled

In a Doorway

What I Learned Today (7)

Amused

Sisters

Namaste (2)

Toothy

Namaste (3)

Young Beauty

Chicken Chopping

Young Cook

Standing Upright

School Time

Large Family

What I Learned Today (8)

Seated Beauty

Silver Hair

Village Girl

The Greengrocers

Namaste (4)

Seamstresses

Sisters in a Doorway

Is Anyone There?

Toothy Problem

In a Doorway

The Highstreet

The Workshop

Zanzibar

These shots were taken during a commission for a charity called 'Dubai Cares' and J. Walter Thomson in Dubai. The shots were to be used for a campaign to raise money for educating children who live in orphanages in Zanzibar.

Ghana (1)

I was on a ten day journey that initially had had nothing to do with photography. My brief required that I film in 360* the Cocoa Bean and Shea Nut plantations in Ghana for the EXPO exhibition in Milan scheduled for the spring of 2015.

Ten days were not sufficient time to accomplish everything and, from necessity, the Land Cruiser travelled fast while flashes of Ghana passed, one after the after, before my eyes.

Practically all the following photographs are tantalising glimpses taken from the Land Cruiser’s window at a 640th. of a second with the ISO setting set on automatic.

Whenever it was possible to stretch my legs I was greeted by people with hospitable smiles and who, in spite of the poverty surrounding them, always showed great generosity and, more importantly, usually managed to find the courage to overcome their natural fear of an intruder’s camera lense.

Ghana (2)

Cuba

Cuban Cowboy (1)

An Awkward Lunch

Taxi?

A Delicate Moment

Fat Dude

Calling Florida

Watching the World Go By

Normal Transport

Pensive

Walking By

Havana

On a Doorstep

Green Bar

Cook's Pause

Bus Stop at Dawn

Tired Face

The Kitchen

Tired Old Dog

The Bridge

Cuban Cowboy (2)

The Doorstep

On the Porch

Cuban Cowboy (3)

Waiting

The Front Porch

Crutches

Walk on By

Soccer Star

Flash Dudes

Hiding

No Comment

Expectant

Pink Graffiti

Cuban Cowboy (4)

The Oldest Profession

Cuban Cowboy (5)

Ché

Sitting Comfortably

Roadside Bar

Disgruntled

Shoe Shine

A Quick Snack

Chatting up Cook

Calling Home

Just Waiting

The Island of Lamu (1)

The island of Lamu nestles in an ancient and long forgotten river delta on the kenya coast. An island where, once apon a time, almost all the then known world used to visit leaving behind rich traditions, superstitions and the birth place of the swahili culture. Lamu is a jewel forgotten in time, a land of no pretentions and where secrets still exist waiting to be discovered.

Lamu was named a world heritage site in 2001. ‘

The Island of Lamu (2)

Sri Lanka

These shots were taken during a commission for a charity called 'Dubai Cares' and J. Walter Thomson in Dubai.

The shots were to be used for a campaign to raise money for educating children brought up in orphanages in Sri Lanka.

Dubai

There are two sides to Dubai and one is slowly disappearing.

The problem is nothing happens slowly in Dubai.

These photographs were taken over a period of three years in which the face of the city changed at a frightening pace,acquiring its new appearance; one of cement monoliths, sparkling glass facades, intertwining overpasses and six lane highways.

This, the upside of the city, has grown relentlessly at the expense of an older culture that risks becoming seen as the city's downside.

All along the wharfs of the Creek and in the Souks which are crushed along its borders, people still carry on with a lifestyle that exists since long before the words 'Anno Domini' came into being.

Slowly but surely Dubai's Downside is being sucked into a way of life as alien to its being as the cement jungle surrounding it.

People who for centuries traded with dhows, bringing continents closer together, now risk finding themselves a mere additional attraction for tourists who come to ski and shop in the luxurious shopping malls that sprout like mushrooms throughout the city.

These photographs are a record of a people who bear little relationship to the brave new world surrounding them.

They are a tribute to a way of life which deserves to be remembered; not in photograph albums or picture postcards, but with respect for an existence that in no way should be considered the downside of anywhere, but rather as the origin of the process that led to the city that proudly calls itself Dubai.